SAN DIEGO — Innovatus Capital Partners has purchased The Pinnacle, a five-story office building located in San Diego’s Rancho Bernardo neighborhood. LPC West, the West Coast arm of Lincoln Property Co., will provide property management services. Located at 10920 Via Frontera, The Pinnacle features 110,128 square feet of Class A office space with 22,000-square-foot floor plates. At the time of sale, the property was fully occupied. Built in 2007, the building recently underwent a series of capital improvements, including lobby renovations, upgraded shower and locker rooms, new landscaping and electric vehicle charging stations. Terms of the transaction, including the seller and acquisition price, were not released.
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — CapRock Partners, a Newport Beach-based industrial real estate manager, has raised $700 million for CapRock Logistics Venture, its new development fund. The raised amount exceeds the fund’s initial $450 million target. CapRock Logitsics Venture is seeded with large-scale industrial real estate projects and will fund nearly $2 billion worth of projects in the Western United States totaling 15 million square feet. The seed portfolio includes CapRock’s Palomino Business Park, Saddle Ranch Business Park, Phase 2 and the I-15 Logistics asset. The new fund is an expansion of CapRock’s fund strategy that previously focused on value-add investments. Hodes Weill Securities served as global placement agent and financial advisor to CapRock.
FREMONT, CALIF. — Square Mile Capital Management has originated a $73.9 million loan secured by Ardenwood Life Science Park, a Class A life sciences and office campus in Fremont. Square Mile Capital provided the acquisition financing to a joint venture between Invesco Real Estate and Lincoln Property Company West. Eastdil Secured’s San Francisco office arranged the financing. Originally developed in 2001, the property underwent a comprehensive renovation for lab and office use in 2006. Affiliates of Tyco Electronics Corp. fully occupy the 186,000-square-foot, two-building campus.
BREA, CALIF. — Cadence Living, Flournoy Development Group and Harrison Street have broken ground on Cadence Brea, an 80-unit assisted living and memory care in the Orange County city of Brea. The project team includes Thoma-Holec Design, Irwin Partners Architects and Flatiron Development Group. “This is a unique opportunity and part of our overall strategy to focus on boutique, high-end, amenity-laden communities with high walkability scores,“ says Rob Leinbach, principal with Cadence. “We are focused on locations with a high barrier to entry,” adds Justin Osborne, vice president at Flournoy Development Group. “It is rare that we come across a site with this many amenities in close proximity.” The community is scheduled to open in first-quarter 2024. This will be the third community delivered in the Cadence/Flournoy partnership after Cadence Olney in the Washington, D.C. suburb in Montgomery County, Maryland and Cadence at Kent-Meridian in the Seattle MSA. Cadence Brea is also the eighth collaboration between Cadence and Harrison Street.
VISTA, CALIF. — Black Lion Investment Group has completed the sale of Vista Terrace Marketplace, a retail strip center in Vista. A real estate fund advised by Crow Holdings Capital acquired the asset for $13.3 million. Situated on two acres at 1280, 1330 and 1350 E. Vista Way, Vista Terrace Marketplace features 28,440 square feet of newly renovated retail space. At the time of sale, the property was 91 percent leased to a variety of national and local tenants, including Anytime Fitness, Discovery Preschool, Sports Clips, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Pacific Dental, Upper Crust Pizza and Bombay Café. Daniel Tyner and Gleb Lvovich of JLL Retail Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. This two-part transaction comes one year after the $10.7 million sale of three outparcel pad buildings at Vista Terrace Marketplace in December 2020.
SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Hanley Investment Group Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of a newly constructed, single-tenant investment property located at 136 College Ave. in Santa Rosa. Pleasant Hill-based California Capital Group sold the asset to an El Dorado Hills-based private investor for $8 million. Jeremy McChesney of Hanley represented the seller, while Chris Fenolio of Weller Partners represented the buyer in the transaction. A 7-Eleven with a gas station occupies the 2,988-square-foot property on a net-lease basis.
SAN FRANCISCO — A fund sponsored by CBRE Investment Management, formerly known as CBRE Global Investors, has acquired a majority stake in two life sciences portfolios in the Mission Bay submarket of San Francisco. The fund made the investment, which includes a total of 1 million square feet of Class A life sciences space, through a joint venture with a life science property developer/operator that developed the portfolios. The first portfolio, located at 409/499 Illinois St. and 1500 Owens St., includes three purpose-built life sciences facilities totaling 644,788 square feet. Situated on a 4.8-acre waterfront, the buildings feature 15-foot clear heights, an outdoor plaza with public art, two on-site restaurants, a rooftop deck, fitness center and an outdoor garden. The properties are LEED Gold and Silver certified. The second portfolio, located at 455 Mission Bay Blvd. South, 1450 Owens St. and 1700 Owens St., includes two existing buildings, which total 375,604 square feet, and a 212,796-square-fot purpose-built life sciences development that is scheduled for construction to start in first-quarter 2022. The properties are LEED Gold certified.
EL CAJON, CALIF. — Southern California-based Brixton Capital has completed the disposition of Fletcher Marketplace, a retail strip center situated on 1.9 acres at 110 Fletcher Parkway in El Cajon. A private investor acquired the asset for $11.4 million. Built in 2020, the two-building, 11,996-square-foot Fletcher Marketplace is triple-net leased to five tenants, including Mattress Firm, Dave’s Hot Chicken, The Joint Chiropractic, Urbane Café and California Fish Grill. Gleb Lvovich and Daniel Tyner of JLL Retail Capital represented the seller in the deal. Don Moser of Retail Insite provided local market support.
BERKELEY, CALIF. — Gemdale USA has completed the sale of Blake at Berkeley, a multifamily property located at 2033 Blake St. in Berkeley. An undisclosed buyer acquired the community for $66 million, or $785,700 per unit. Completed in December 2021, Blake at Berkeley features 32 studio, 34 one-bedroom, 16 two-bedroom and two live-work units. Community amenities include a central courtyard, a roof deck with 360-degree views, two large common-area patios, coworking spaces and garage parking. Jason Parr, Scott MacDonald, John Hansen, Michael Bissada and Sydney Ladrech of Cushman & Wakefield’s Multifamily Advisory Group represented the seller in the transaction.
REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Lowe has completed the purchase of Regency Centers’ portion of the Sequoia Station Shopping Center in downtown Redwood City. Terms of the transaction were not released. Lowe is in the process of seeking entitlements to redevelop the site into a modern mixed-use development as part of Redwood City’s proposed Transit District. The Regency portion of the property includes 103,000 square feet of retail space on 6.6 acres. Safeway and CVS/pharmacy anchor the property. Safeway will retain its current ownership within the shopping center and both Safeway and CVS/pharmacy will remain open and operating as the phased project is constructed.